Example sentences of "it provided [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provided grazing land , timber , fruits and fuel , while remaining an undamaged wildlife habitat . |
| 2 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 3 | It provided acute services for a neighbouring district without a DGH , and this already represented one-quarter of its business . |
| 4 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 5 | It provided continuous core for analysis and integration with downhole geophysical logs . |
| 6 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 7 | It provided simple answers to seemingly intractable questions . |
| 8 | The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo . |
| 9 | It provided unparalleled opportunities for transnational companies manufacturing chemical fertilisers , pesticides , tractors and pump-sets to sell their wares to a vast new market . |
| 10 | It provided year-by-year evidence of prevailing trends in public health . |
| 11 | The city 's Central Station incorporates a large viaduct section over Argyll Street , which is locally nicknamed the Highlandman 's Umbrella , because it provided useful shelter for the homeless and unemployed in the city . |
| 12 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 13 | In this and other cited areas ( such as the development of high-rise flats and the commercial redevelopment of numerous town centres since the 1950s ) , central government did more than simply exhort — it provided financial incentives to help secure compliance . |
| 14 | ‘ It provided built-in variety when the technology of TV was very different . |
| 15 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 16 | It was Lennon 's first straight acting role and was coolly received , but it provided another vehicle for promoting his vision of a world free of war and nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | As such it provided further evidence of a more flexible North Korean foreign policy arising in response to the momentous changes in Eastern Europe , and to South Korea 's recent successes in establishing relations with socialist countries . |
| 18 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |
| 19 | She only had one cow , it was all she could afford , but it provided enough milk to go with the porridge in the morning and the potatoes at other meals . |
| 20 | The competition was fished on the River Glem which looked uninviting , running gin clear and low , but it provided excellent match for the hard working delegates . |
| 21 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 22 | The GIS gave rapid and easy access to the data in a number of different ways , it provided analytical tools for the production of statistical tables , and it allowed the output of maps and specific factors , such as the overlay of the road network onto the green belt layer , showing areas of high and low accessibility , thus permitting the evaluation of population growth potential relative to accessibility and planning constraints . |
| 23 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 24 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 25 | Similar to agreements signed by Poland and Czechoslovakia with Germany , it provided binding protection for the 100,000-strong German ethnic minority in Romania . |